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Natasha Taylor

dr.natasha.taylor@gmail.com
Earth, , Singapore

Summary

Currently a Research Fellow at National University of Singapore. Short biography for the left-hand sidebar

Education

  • 2024
    The University of Sydney
  • 2019
    The University of Sydney
    GPA: Distinction

Work Experience

  • Research Fellow
  • Postdoctoral Research Associate

Publications

  • Shaking with Fear
    2020
    Brain
    This paper is an invited perspective piece on the role of noradrenaline in modulating tremor in Parkinson's Disease.
  • Structural and Functional Correlates of Hallucinations and Illusions in Parkinson’s Disease’
    2021
    Journal of Parkinson's Disease
    This paper is about structural and functional changes in visual hallucinations in Parkinson's Disease.
  • Limbic hypoconnectivity in idiopathic REM sleep behaviour disorder with impulse control disorders
    2021
    Journal of Neurology
    This paper is about hypoconnectivity changes in REM Sleep Behaviour Disorder.
  • Understanding the effects of serotonin in the brain through its role in the gastrointestinal tract
    2022
    Brain
    This paper is a review about the role of serotonin in mediating brain activity through interactions with the gut.
  • The role of the Locus Coeruleus in shaping adaptive cortical melodies
    2022
    Trends in Cognitive Sciences
    This paper is a review about the role of noradrenaline in faciliating global brain activity for adaptive behaviour.
  • The Contribution of Noradrenergic Activity to Anxiety‐Induced Freezing of Gait
    2022
    Movement Disorders
    This paper is a about the role of the noradrenergic system in driving anxiety induced freezing of gait in Parkinson's Disease.
  • The Structural and Functional Connectivity of Neuromodulatory systems underpins dynamic shifts in brain network topology and attractor landscape topography
    2022
    Neuroimage
    This paper is a about the relationship between noradrenergic and cholinergic structural connectivity faciliates dynamic brain state shifts.
  • A whole new world: embracing the systems-level to understand the indirect impact of pathology in neurodegenerative disorders
    2022
    Journal of Neurology
    This paper is a review paper about embracing systems-level approaches to understanding neuropathology in the brain.
  • Modulating arousal to overcome gait impairments in Parkinson’s disease: how the noradrenergic system may act as a double-edged sword
    2023
    Translational Neurodegeneration
    This paper is a review paper about the role of arousal in gait related impairments in Parkinson's Disease.
  • Abnormal higher-order network interactions in Parkinson’s disease visual hallucinations
    2023
    Brain
    This paper is a higher-order cortical changes during visual hallucinations in Parkinson's disease.
  • Effect of dopamine on limbic network connectivity at rest in Parkinson’s disease patients with freezing of gait
    2024
    Translational Neuroscience
    This paper is about the effect of dopamine on resting state connectivity in Parkinson's Disease.
  • Causal evidence for cholinergic stabilisation of attractor landscape dynamics
    2024
    Cell Report
    This paper is about the role of the cholinergic system in casually driving brain state shifts.
  • Dopamine alters functional gradients in Parkinson’s disease
    2025
    Imaging Neuroscience
    This paper is about the dopaminergic related functional gradient changes in Parkinson's Disease.
  • Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) Signatures of Progression and Phenoconversion in Prodromal Synucleinopathies
    2025
    Movement Disorders
    This paper is about the prodromal functional changes in prodromal synucleopathies.
  • See through the Static: Reduced Imagery vividness in Aphantasia is associated with impaired temporal lobe signal complexity
    2025
    Neuropsychologia
    This paper is about the functional related complexity changes in Aphantasia.
  • Susceptibility to visual hallucinations in the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-frontotemporal dementia spectrum: the role of dysfunctional attentional networks
    2025
    Cortex
    This paper is about the functional changes in visual hallucinations in ALS and dementia.
  • Dysfunctional Preoperative Resting-state Network Connectivity predicts Post-operative delirium
    2025
    British Journal of Anaesthesia
    This paper is about the functional connectivity changes that are predictive of post-operative delirium.
  • Preoperative Cholinergic Signatures Drive Segregated Brain Architecture in Postoperative Delirium’
    2025
    Under review
    This paper is about the cholinergic alterations as predictor of brain architecture changes in post-operative delirium.

Presentations

  • Organisation for Human Brain Mapping International Presentation
    2020
    Online - COVID
    International
  • International Society for Posture and Gait Research
    2022
    Conference
    Canada
  • Organization for Computational Neuroscience Presentation
    2022
    Conference
    Melbourne, Australia
  • Complexity, Criticality, Computation Presentation
    2023
    Conference
    Heron Island, Australia
  • Complexity, Criticality, Computation Presentation
    2023
    Conference
    Heron Island, Australia
  • Sydney Clinical Imaging Symposium Invited Guest Speaker
    2024
    Conference
    Sydney, Australia
    Awarded best presentation
  • OHBM International Conference
    2025
    Conference
    Brisbane, Australia
  • Guest Speaker - Centre for Sleep & Cognition, NUS
    2025
    Invited Speaker
    Singapore
  • Guest Speaker - Nanyang Technological University
    2025
    Invited Speaker
    Singapore
  • Society of Neuroscience - Singapore
    2025
    Invited Speaker
    Singapore

Teaching

  • Teaching experience 1
    2014
    University 1, Department
    Role: Undergraduate course
  • Teaching experience 2
    2015
    University 1, Department
    Role: Workshop

Portfolio

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    Portfolio
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